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- Print File Requester
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- FileMinder prints files via a background print spooler. The requester
- determines the options sent to the printer for each file. The options
- are sent to the printer driver using the standard Amiga printer commands.
- All options may not work with your printer. There 3 string requesters
- on the Left:
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- Line Length determines the longest line that will be sent to the printer.
- Lines longer than this will be split.
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- Lines Per Page determines the number of lines the printer will print on
- one page. Zero leaves the printer at its default (usually 66).
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- Skip Over Perf determines the number of blank lines at the end of a page.
- This number is included in the lines per page. Zero leaves the printer
- at its default (usually 0).
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- There are 7 toggle gadgets on the right that select other options. Not
- all printers can handle all of these options. The combination of options
- that will work also varys depending on the printer. For example some
- printers will allow condensed combined with elite to give 165 charcter
- lines and some printers can only do one or the other. A wide printer will
- handle more characters in each format than a narrow printer. To select
- an option click its gadget on. Following is a summary of the available
- options:
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- NLQ Near Letter Quality (or true letter quality if you have a 24
- pin printer).
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- 8LPI Eight lines per inch (normally allowing 88 lines per page).
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- COND Condensed print or 132 characters per line on a narrow printer.
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- ELITE Twelve pitch or 96 characters per line on a narrow printer.
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- NUMBERS This causes line numbers to be printed to the left of each line.
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- HEADERS This causes a header to be printed on the first page of each file
- containing the full path to the file and the current date and
- time.
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- CTL CHARS This causes any control characters to be expanded to "^A" for
- the SOH character, etc. Formfeed and Newline are not expanded.
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- When you have selected the desired options, click the PRINT gadget to
- print the file. If you are printing more than one file, The NEXT gadget
- will skip the current file and go to the next. You can click the CANCEL
- gadget to abort the print operation.
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- For the print spooler to work CD and RUN must be present in your C:
- directory. You must also have set up the HOME= tooltype in the FileMinder
- ICON and the prspool program must be in that directory so that FileMinder
- can execute it. Once the print spooler has been loaded it opens a small
- control window on the workbench screen. This window shows which file is
- currently being printed. It also has a gadget to allow you to skip to the
- next file in its Q. The close gadget will purge the print Q and and end
- the print spooler.
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